Question: Which of the following natural forces “speaks” in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” ?

• 1. An avalanche
• 2. Rapids
• 3. The west wind
• 4. Thunder

Question: What is the central theme of Keith Douglas’s “How to Kill” ?

• 1. Combat detaches a man from humanity.
• 2. All is fair in love and war.
• 3. It is honorable and just to defend your country in a war.
• 4. There is a right and a wrong way to throw a hand grenade.

Question: Which of the following writers authored the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”?

• 1. Wilfred Owen
• 2. Siegfried Sassoon
• 3. Rupert Brooke
• 4. Rudyard Kipling

Question: Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot’s concept of the “objective correlative” ?

• 1. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its meaning.
• 2. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its rhetorical aim.
• 3. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s theme and its objective historical context.
• 4. The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion.

Question: “How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another.” ?

• 1. Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system
• 2. Fear of the AIDs crisis
• 3. Fear of global nuclear war
• 4. Fear of the economic Great Depression

Question: Which of the following best describes theidea of the symbol among French Symbolist poets ?

• 1. A symbol is an image that conveys powerful emotional states.
• 2. A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings.
• 3. A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities.
• 4. A symbol is a description of past realities.

Question: Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pound’s strong emphasis on poetic technique ?

• 1. It serves to effectively depersonalize Pound’s poems.
• 2. It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pound’s poetry.
• 3. It is a paradoxical mixture of personal and impersonal elements.
• 4. It is a means of creating a dialogue between modernity and tradition.

Question: Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?

• 1. The Futurists apotheosized technology, whereas World War II poets often focused on technology’s destructive powers.
• 2. The Futurists praised speed, whereas World War II poets often evoked images of nature to describe the human condition.
• 3. The Futurists privileged the part over the whole, whereas World War II poets did not deal with the problem of modernity and alienation.
• 4. The Futurists focused on advancements in technology and industry, whereas World War II poets ignored advancements in technology, especially in modern warfare.

Question: Which of the following writers was among the founders of the Imagist movement ?

• 1. Salvador Dali
• 2. Horace Greeley
• 3. Ezra Pound
• 4. Rupert Brooke

Question: Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Marianne Moore’s poem “A Grave ”?

• 1. It juxtaposes human consciousness against the sea.
• 2. It uses alliteration and iambic pentameter.
• 3. It has a subtle formal structure, even though it does not use rhyme.
• 4. Both A and C